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U.S. set lifesaving organ donation and transplant records in 2022
Selfless deceased donors make 12-year record-setting trend possible.
UNOS advances plan to restructure transplant network governance to best serve patients
To increase autonomy and transparency to better serve the nation’s transplant patients, UNOS recommends a restructure of respective boards of directors and to establish the OPTN as an independent non-profit entity.
Change addressing disparity for black kidney patients takes effect
New policy allows for waiting time adjustments for those disadvantaged by the use of race-based measures of kidney health.
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Kidney – Pancreas
Waitlist enhancements and new kidney features coming Sept. 27
On Sept. 27, UNOS will launch the first in a series of enhancements to the visual design and workflows in Waitlist.
Pre-implementation notice: Minimum kidney donor criteria established for biopsies
Effective Sept. 6, OPOs will be required to perform renal procurement biopsies for deceased kidney donors meeting certain criteria.
Policy change impacting KPD eligibility coming Aug. 30
Changes to HLA and unacceptable antigen options will go into effect Aug. 30, as well as changes to the equivalences used for HLA matching and screening of unacceptable antigens between candidates and donors.
Liver – Intestine
Updated 15–month monitoring report available for liver, intestine policy
Geographic variability in median urgency scores at transplant has decreased.
National Liver Review Board guidance documents updated
Updates made to pediatric and non-HCC adult exception guidance.
OPTN Board approves VCA transplant programs, liver allocation refinements, and strategic plan
New VCA specialties included in member directory.
Heart – Lung
Transplant patient webinar addresses upcoming changes to lung distribution
The OPTN will host a webinar for transplant patients to learn about upcoming changes to lung distribution.
Three-month monitoring report for heart policy following a device recall now available
Report shows key measures of adult heart allocation based on policy changes implemented in July 2022.
Lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator coming February 2023
The lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator will be available on the OPTN website beginning Feb. 2, 2023.
VCA
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Improving the system together
LifeLink of Georgia increases African-American organ donation
Bobby Howard, Director of Multicultural Donation Education at LifeLink of Georgia talks about how building trust increases African-American organ donation
Lifeline of Ohio LGBTQ+ outreach: Increasing donor registrations
LifeLine of Ohio, proud ally of Ohio’s LGBTQ+ community, marches in Pride events and educates the community about organ donation
Next steps for the first national donor image sharing hub
Phase 1 of the UNOS imaging study pilot concluded successfully in April. Key findings will form the blueprint for future planning.
UNet
Reminder: Patient status options for TRF forms
Reminder of Patient Status options available to members. Please continue to complete TRF forms as they are assigned with the appropriate patient status.
Site security administrator search feature now live
Report added to UNet Security Administration that allows site security administrators to search for other site security administrators.
VCA coming to UNet Sept 14, 2023
Allocation of all Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) organs that were originally scheduled to move into UNet in Spring 2023, will now implement on Sept. 14.
“… policy is the living, breathing expression of group values.”
Martha Pavlakis, M.D.
Policy changes
New and changed data collection on TIEDI in effect
These policy changes impacting TIEDI forms were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in March 2022.
Updates to data submission policy in effect
Effective Aug. 30, new requirements under revisions to OPTN Policy 18: Data Submission Requirements include a data lock provision to make changes to any of the eight TIEDI forms.
Changes to HLA and unacceptable antigen options in effect
Updates to HLA typing and unacceptable antigen reporting options and equivalencies are now in effect.
Policy monitoring
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Learn: Collaborative improvement and educational resources
IN FOCUS
Heart transplant sets all-time record in 2021
31,238 lifesaving heart transplants have been performed at hospitals across the country over the past decade.
Collaboration
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Education
What is KDPI? A new animation for patients explains the kidney donor profile index
New animated video for patients and their caregivers explains the kidney donor profile index.
What is EPTS? A new animation for patients explains the estimated post-transplant survival score
New animated video for patients and their caregivers explains the estimated post-transplant survival score.
Effective practices
Learn about collaborative improvement projects
Learn about issues impacting patients, donors, donor families, and the national system. Issues and advocacy
Patient safety
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Transplant hospital
Nashville’s Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West’s focus on quality improvement
Heather Marshall of Ascension Saint Thomas West Hospital on the education and peer support initiative her program helped pilot.
New lung data collection fields coming to support lung continuous distribution
Effective Nov. 8, two new lung data fields are being implemented in preparation for lung continuous distribution, which is to be released in January 2023.
Two new enhancements added to DonorNet
Two new enhancements are available in DonorNet. These enhancements display as tooltips, visible when the user hovers over a button or question mark icon.
OPO
New OPO System and Process Measures Dashboard now available
The OPO System and Process Measures Dashboard is available to all OPOs in the OPTN Visual Analytics section of the data services portal in UNet.
Building a team, serving a community: Pride at NEDS
New England Donor Services LGBTQIA+ outreach meets the community where they are.
UNOS researchers present studies at 2022 American Transplant Congress
Meeting held in Boston June 4-8.
Histocompatibility
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